Correlates of weapon carrying among high school students in the United States

Table 2 Unadjusted associations between weapon carrying on school property and selected characteristics among US high school students, 2005

	OR [95% CI]
Characteristic	Total	Males	Females
Age (years)
<15	1.00	1.00	1.00
15	1.19 [0.83, 1.89]	1.08 [0.69, 1.68]	1.14 [0.54, 2.37]
16	1.31 [0.92, 1.87]	1.28 [0.84, 1.95]	1.18 [0.58, 2.40]
17	1.19 [0.83, 1.71]	1.20 [0.78, 1.85]	1.07 [0.52, 2.20]
18+	1.29 [0.88, 1.89]	1.30 [0.83, 2.04]	0.75 [0.32, 1.79]
Gender
Female	1.00
Male	4.22 [3.40, 5.23]
Ethnicity
White	1.00	1.00	1.00
American Indian or Alaska native	1.19 [0.66, 2.16]	1.47 [0.78, 2.78]	0.06 [0.01, 0.45]
Asian	0.44 [0.18, 1.07]	0.32 [0.10, 1.07]	0.98 [0.32, 2.98]
Black	0.83 [0.64, 1.06]	0.65 [0.48, 0.90]	1.64 [1.06, 2.55]
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	2.82 [1.27, 6.27]	4.43 [1.77, 11.07]	1.65 [0.22, 12.26]
Hispanic	1.08 [0.82, 1.42]	1.15 [0.84, 1.58]	0.85 [0.46, 1.56]
Substance use (tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs)
No	1.00	1.00
Yes	2.35 [1.65, 3.51]	2.40 [1.52, 3.78]	2.20 [1.17, 4.15]
Depression
No	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	2.43 [1.94, 3.03]	1.90 [1.58, 2.28]	3.67 [2.43, 5.55]
Suicidal ideation
No	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	2.75 [1.86, 4.05]	3.33 [2.60, 4.25]	2.29 [1.88, 2.79]
Property stolen or deliberately damaged on school property
No	1.00	1.00
Yes	2.42 [2.02, 2.90]	2.25 [1.82, 2.77]	2.78 [1.90, 4.06]
Physical fighting
No	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	4.48 [3.00, 6.70]	4.03 [3.20, 5.06]	4.84 [3.97, 5.89]
Rape
No	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	3.51 [2.51, 4.90]	4.05 [3.09, 5.32]	2.60 [2.13, 3.17]
Threatened or injured with a weapon on school property
No	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	5.43 [4.38, 6.74]	4.83 [3.75, 6.22]	5.79 [3.68, 9.12]

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